Suspenders.



L. ROTTER. S USPENDERS. APPLICATION FILED DEC'.28. 1912.

Patented Dec. 10, 1918.

Mow/W Lassen nor'rnn, or MILWAUKEE, W sconsin,

susrnunnns.

Specificationof Letters Patent.-

Patented Dec. to, 1913.

Application filed December 28, 1917. SerialNo. 209,241.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, LESSER Ro'r'rnn, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State ofWisconsin, have inventer certain new and useful Improvements inSuspenders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description thereof. I

My invention relates broadlyto new and useful improvements insuspenders, more particularly to means for attaching the same totrousers or other articles of apparel tobe supported thereby.

The principal object of this invention is toprovide a novel simplyconstructed means for securing the attaching strap to the garment to besupported without the aid of the usual buttons carried by such garment.That is to say, my improved suspenders are adapted to be used ongarments, such as trousers and the like, which have not been providedwith buttons or from which the buttons have been removed.

\Vith this general objectin view the invention resides in certain novelfeatures of construction which will be hereinafter more particularlydescribed and claimed and shown in the drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 represents a side elevational view of a portion of a pair ofsuspenders con structed in accordance with my invention and attached toa fragment of a garment, and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

The attaching device which forms a prin-' cipal part of my invention ispreferably used in connection with suspenders, but it will be obvious asthe descriptlon progresses that the same idea can be modified for usein' connection with other devices.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, it will be seen that thenumeral 1 denotes an elastic band of a portion of a pair of suspenders,said band having the usual garment attaching strap 2 detachably attachedthereto as at 3. As is customary the strap is connected with the band 1midway its ends, and said ends engage the trousers T or the like.Normally said trousers are provided with buttons and the ends of thestrap 2 with slits to receive the buttons.

In my invention each end of the strap 2 is bifurcated to thus formfurcations 4 and 5 respectively, these furcations being disposed onopposite sides of theupper edge-portion of the garment as shownin Fig.'2'. Theattaching meanson each. end of the strap 12 is substantially thesame, therefore in the following description, only the means on one endwill be particularly described. v

The fur cation 5 has a stud 6 extending laterally from its inner faceand is secured thereto preferably by the arrangement shown 7 in Fig. 2.One end of the shank of the stud is reduced as at 7 and disposed throughan eyelet 8 in the furcation 5, after which it is headed as at 9. Thiswill rigidly secure the stud in position. The portion of the eyeletwhich engages the shoulder formed by reducingsaid shank is of greaterdiameter than the main portion of the latter to provide an annularflange.

The other end of the stud is provided with an enlarged conical shapedhead 10 having a sharp point so that the stud may readily force its waythrough the garment T. The intermediate portion of the shank of thestudis of smaller diameter than the diameter of the head 10, and thedistance between said head and the reduced portion 7, and consequentlysaid annular flange of the eyelet is substantially the thickness oftheordinary trousers adjacent the top edge thereof.

The portion carried by the furcation 4 which cooperates with the stud 6consists of a socket 11, the inner wall portion of which is slit toprocure a plurality of spring fingers whereby to permit the enlargedhead to spring into or out of the same. The outer side of the socket 11is closed by a disk-like cap 12 which is relatively flat. In order thatthe cap may not protrude to an unnecessary extent, an opening 1 3 isformed therein to receive thepoint of the head 10. Said point, however,does not extend beyond the outer face of the cap.

In the use of this device the stud 6 is forced through the fabric of thegarment to be supported by the suspenders until the head 10 projectstherefrom, whereupon the. furcation carrying the socket 11 is movedtoward the other and the head snapped .into

' said socket. The frictional engagement between the walls of the socketand the head will hold the two furcations together and to the garmentuntil the former are forcibly pulledapart as will be obvious from Fig.2, When the head is engaged with the socket it i will be noted that theinnerportions of the spring fingers thereof are disposed inwardly V ofthe garment immediately surrounding the stud receiving opening will befrictionally gripped between the same and said annular flange of theeyelet. The tearing strain on the opening is thus greatly relieved andit is unnecessary to provide the same with a reinforcing as iscustomary. This device will eliminate the necessity for providingtrousers with suspender buttons, and inasmuch as attachment anddetachment of my invention to or from a garment is very simple, the samewill be found to'be very efficient and economical in use. f r

I claim: p In an article of the class described, a supporting deviceincluding an attaching strap, said strap being bifurcated, an attachingeyelet in one of the furcations of said strap, an elongated stud havingone end reduced and disposed in the eyelet for securement to thefurcation, the portion of the eyelet at the shoulder formed by reducingsaid stud being extended laterally of the latter to provide an annularflange, a conical, sharply pointed head on the other end of the stud,said head being of greater diameter than the intermediate portion of theshank of the stud, the point of the head being adapted to readily startan opening through a garment to be supported, the distance between thebase of said head and said annular flange being substantially thethickness of said garment, and a socket carried by the other furcation,said socket having its inner portion split to procure spring fingers forengaging over the base of said head, said fingers being disposedinwardly of the head to grippingly engagethe garment between the sameand said annular flange, the engagement being immediately around theopening formed by the head to relieve the tearing strain on the wall ofsaid opening.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand atMilwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin;

LESSER ROTTER.

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